#the mute prox chat

[pearl-and-co]

Having a Grian introject in one image:

[painless-innit-colourful]

prox chat people muting while around other people is exactly like asides in a play and furthers the weird analogy between streaming and a stage play

[ferremc3]

hii firstly here's the internet archive links: https://archive.org/details/20230506-ferremclive-lifeline-day-1 \\ https://archive.org/details/vod-ferremc-yellow-team-moneysmp-block-wars \\ https://archive.org/details/20230520-ferre-mclive-winners-pov-honeycomb-tournament-charity

i didn't do the most thorough search so there could be more. who knows. also here's the hoplite stream in question! got the link from the lifesteal archive sheet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW3bLZAC1Vs

some timestamps:

clown's mic is muted until 4mins in (L). until ~29min everyone is just running around the lobby waiting for the event for start. from ~30min to 1h7min is the part i'd probably skip, cause everyone splits up to grind so there isn't much going on (they only have prox chat for the event, no voice groups). after that the team meets up again and stays together for the rest. uhh after like 2h25min it seems like nothing else is going to happen, but around 2h30min ferre shows up again. and if you're feeling clownferrepilled then here's a few moments i thought were kinda cute: 14:27, 58:43, 2:19:25, 2:30:22

anyway thanks for practically running the ferremc fan club up in here (hello fellow anons) 🫶

p.s. congrats on learning breach swapping

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE LINKS I LOVE YOU FERRE ANONS ferremc offical discord aint got nothing on all of you. valiantly running the ferremc support group on tumblr all of you anons should come together because we sure need the support this mf has no content.

[beepbananabus]

Alr you gotta say the first thoughts in your head about Vanoss and Delirious GO!

it drives me insane how they are each other's exceptions (or at least, jon is to evan)

for example, evan has built up this asshole repertoire where he bullies everyone ceaselessly EXCEPT for jon. he will apologize to him (GTA when he destroyed the bear memorial (and in that same video, he killed moo by accident but didn't apologize), small GMod mistakes like misplacing props, skits gone wrong, and several other instances). he will try and amend his mistakes with him. evan will straight up ditch a whole bit just so that he can let jon join in (minecraft; the nether star fiasco (even brian who started the bit was like WTF evan)), jon will run away from the others and let only evan tag along with him (also in minecraft. they even state outright how pissed the others will be LMAO.) and share items with him for no reason (minecraft. again. chick-fil-a scene (focus on evan's inventory)), and evan will just laugh the hardest and the softest (genuinely for no reason other than jon's laugh. the joke was already over by that point) around him?? and there IS a noticeable difference. btw. im not losing my mind over this.

evan's mood will do a complete fucking 180 when it comes to jon (a little bit of a longer clip because it needs to be established what their mood was PRIOR to this and how SHARPLY it changes once jon is in the picture), even for stuff that he should JUSTIFIABLY be upset about**

(i was also so tempted to also mention all of their friend's feelings ABOUT them but this is about THEM. however, i wouldn't mind spilling about that either)

** this is a way longer tangent so ill put it under a cut (SPOILERS FOR ONE OF EVAN'S AMONG US VIDEOS INCLUDED)

video here, (starts at the timestamp, also time stamping this one bc this segment is longer than what youtube clips allows for.)

for context, jon and evan are playing among us with other people. evan is an imposter and fools around with jon (this is not an exaggeration) before locking him into storage. his imposter crewmate sneaks in, kills jon and runs off, but in the meeting that follows afterwards, jon accidentally exposes evan by not muting his mic, getting evan killed.

INSTEAD of being angry at him (yes. this is a video game but they've been pissed over lesser things), or even a SMIDGE of being upset, evan instead goes over and COMFORTS him.

LIKE. i can VERIFY to you that that has accidentally happened before and all other times, people in this game have been LIVID. they've been PISSED. these are gamer bros that are easy to launch into a cursing fit. yet he doesnt.

(yes, evan does have a rep for not exploding into anger but he shows himself being upset in other ways. none of those are present in that video.)

Notes:

6.06 - 8:40 is one of those scenes that makes me?? lose it?? /affectionately

because its a MIX of things.

evan is playing with jon here. and im not talking about like. playing as in playing the game. he's doing a bit with jon and jon only and it reminds me of like, stereotypical girls when they get a guy to chase them while giggling, like they're PLAYING TAG right now. just the two of them.

evan didnt even kill jon. evan probably WASNT PLANNING TO. he was just messing around with jon probably and was going to leave him alone after this, like i kinda wish jon didn't die to see what evan WOULD've done

just??? their fucking BANTER in general, then their soft comfort at the end?? like that is INCREDIBLY out of their gamer persona, like i cannot state this enough. they have their moments together and GODDDD YEAH.

when they're dead, prox chat is off. they didn't NEED to be that close to each other to talk and yet they are (also. grizzy is nowhere near them and yet hes engaging in the convo, meaning that presence is not mandatory)

[inkydiamonds]

I was going to put this all in the tags but. Sighs. I reached the tag limit so I'm going to retype it all here! Basically, I have a few more popular headcanons to add on to this list, some clarifications of where things originated, and some more elaborations

I may have made some mistakes in some places, this is just my recollection.

Bdubs:

Dragon hybrid- originated from the dragon bros late s6 during Demise

Glare hybrid- a failed mob from a mob vote, and it looks basically exactly like bdubs's mossy cloak skin

Doc:

Goat hybrid- stemmed from the acronym of G.O.A.T. and then his obsession with goats when they got added to Minecraft. It eventually got added to his skin from all of the fanart

Butterfly hybrid- I Believe it came from a conversation with doccy where he made doc make-believe as a butterfly. I think doc may have also requested fanart of him with butterfly wings or maybe just encouraged it in general

Etho:

Arctic fox hybrid- his villager farm in s7 was in a tundra biome and he found and adopted an artic fox as his pet. Also people liked how it matched his white hair lmao

Enderian/enderman hybrid- started I believe mostly due to his cryptid vibes and also his love for ender pearls! Additionally, there's a fucking amazing clip from s7 which I believe may have played a role in popularizing it from when he met Grian for the first time. The two of them are very weird about it and Etho ends up teleporting accidentally behind Grian, which from Grian's perspective just looks like Etho vanishes into thin air then magically appears behind him without even throwing an ender pearl. It scares the crap out of him it's fantastic

False:

Dragon hybrid- started due to dragon bros in late s6 during Demise

Gem:

Elf/nature spirit- what her character canonically is, the deer hybrid stuff was all extrapolated from her antlers (which is fair)

Scar:

Elf hybrid- he's canonically an elf early s9

Grian:

Specifics on the bird hybrid headcanons!

Chicken- started due to poultry man in s6, as well as his obsession with filling places with chickens

Parrot- a lot of people say that this headcanon started in s7 with his adoption of Professor Beak as well as his catch phrase of calling himself "pesky bird", but it actually started earlier to my recollection! (Mostly because I remember a really well known piece of fanart of him with parrot wings from before s7). I believe it may have originated from the general avian headcanons mixed with his creation of a room late s6 in the Architechs' Sahara filled with parrots and a jukebox, which he would dance in with the parrots until Iskall and Mumbo found the room

I can confirm the haunted doll one for Grian is because of his skin, but it's also due to his mannerisms! He had a tendency (starting probably in s7 I'd say? He was a bit more shy s6 but it's possible it started then) to hop around and creepily stare at people streaming without saying anything in chat or joining a vc before proximity chat. In s8 (technically late s7) when prox chat was added, he would often purposefully mute so he could continue doing this

Fish hybrid- mostly shows up as specifically a cod hybrid, because his head looks like a dropped cod head! This was popularized due to Cleo mentioning it and Grian talking about it early s7 during Head Game, but was mentioned as early as early s6 due to Grian's Head Hunt minigame where a player (I believe it was iskall?) turned in cod heads instead of Grian heads hoping Grian wouldn't notice. However! He's also been headcanoned as a salmon hybrid, due to being the Salmon Ghost from late s6.

Dragon hybrid- originated from the dragon bros in late s6 during Demise, got a surge of popularity in s8 due to Tegg

Eldritch rock- due to The Entity from early s9. It was canonically taking pieces of the world around it. One day, it suddenly had flesh. The headcanon was maybe it took some of Grian and gave some of itself back (tbh we need to talk about the Entity again it's SOOOO horrifying)

Hypno:

I believe part of the spread of the eldritch/fae headcanons was due to the lovely fic Fixed and Dilated! I believe you're correct that the origin comes mostly from his name/HHF

Impulse:

Dwarf hybrid- he's canonically a dwarf in s9

Iskall:

Dragon hybrid- originated from dragon bros in late s6 during Demise

Joe:

Ghost- due to Beetlejhoest which is a thing which Occurs on his streams

Mumbo:

Mumbo being a vampire originates before s7 I do believe. Someone in the notes said it may have originated from when he was oversaturated after s6 Demise and Iskall said he looked like a vampire, but I think it's possible that it originated earlier? I remember a genre of drawings of Mumbo covered in red with an "it's just redstone guys dw" type caption. I think it's a lot because he's hced as tall and lanky, and his skin looks pale and gaunt

Dragon hybrid- originated with the dragon bros late s6 during Demise

Pearl:

I think the Pearl watcher stuff just comes from the fact that she's from Evo

Also the moth-moon association comes partially from her being hced as a luna moth, then just a moth in general

Beef:

....Meat?? Idk just in general meat-like body horror- Obviously due to the name and the butcher skin, but also because of the absolutely terrifying sequence of events from s7 during the start of the Hels clone saga where he fails at making a clone of himself and instead creates a skinless meat version of himself (ft. what is apparently an early skin of his) and also an unsettling other version of himself where the only visible difference is that he had green eyes instead of blue. The fandom then decided this other version of him was completely hollow. (Honestly once again. We do not talk about this enough IT'S SO HORRIFYING LIKE WTF)

Alien- was slowly turning into some kind of alien creature in s8

Zedaph:

Death Itself/grim reaper- due to Zedeath from s6

Cleo:

Medusa/gorgon- she is canonically has snake hair starting s9

Also she was a human at one point (or maybe at multiple points in time? The one I remember is Demise), and also an angel at some point.

Bonus ones I've seen but don't know the origins of:

-Dragon or wither Impulse

-Dragonfly Joe

-Fae or angel or dragon Wels

Also witch Stress and and cyborg Iskall and Doc which I don't consider to really be hybrids imo

been compiling a "where did that non-human hermit headcanon come from?" list because some are... oddly obscure and hard to figure out. feel free to send me more popular headcanons ive missed.

bdubs

plant hybrid: the entire nho jungle vines situation, current moss hoodie skin

cub

vex/vex hybrid: both members of the convex implied/stated to be vex/have vex magic

evoker: one or two bits of convex dialog imply cub has vex magic but scar is the actual vex; thus evoker cub

alien: science & space, age/shape shifter, has said 'greetings people of earth' at least once

bear hybrid: name is cub

doc

creeper hybrid: literally just his actual skin

etho

clone: non-hermit videos (crash landing series has a cloning machine? + episode 404 of lp features multiple etho clones)

ambiguous eldritch being: joked to look scary under the mask, non-red eye said to be scary to stare into

false

avian: ??? eagle build in s8 + birdcage-esque build in s7 nether??

gem

centaur/deer hybrid: literally just her actual skin

scar

vex/vex hybrid: both members of the convex implied/stated to be vex/have vex magic

cat hybrid: cat loving mischevious man, sewer cats s7???

wizard: canonically a wizard in s7

fae: mischevious sweet-talker who seems to be able to charm his way out of situations way too often

grian

avian: excelent flyer, pesky bird running joke, scar calls him 'feathered friend' once

watcher: canonically becomes a watcher at the end of evo smp

haunted doll: ?? empty beady eyed skin??

fae: similar to avian but with extra mischevious energy

hypno

pokemon hypno hybrid: name, used a hypno skin at some point

ambigious eldritch being: name...???? sinister energy of horse head farms??

jevin

slime: literally just his actual skin

TROPICAL slime: is a blue slime type in minecraft dungeons & he is blue (usually)

impulse

demon: was summoned into hermitcraft with a vague summoning circle. also... IMP-ulse.

iskall

somehow i have never seen a non-human iskall. very surprising.

joe

ambigious eldritch being: whatever the 'joe hills difference' is. also probably just his odd vibes.

herobrine: above + steve based skin

keralis

ambigious eldritch being: general odd vibes. seemed to exist in both space + hermitcraft server in s8.

mumbo

shapeshifter: whatever the hell was going on with him in s8

vampire: skin? scar asked if he was a vampire once in s7.

robot: redstoner. took a long time to figure out organic builds. s7 halloween skin.

pearl

watcher: ???grian sibling energy???

moon spirit: pearlescent MOON. is called a moon a few times in s8.

moth hybrid: makes good wings for moon themeing...?

llama hybrid: lots of llama themeing in s8. padllama co.

ren

dog hybrid: literally just his actual skin.

werewolf: alternative for dog hybrid. allows more fic angst.

stress

fairy: cute naturey builds? ice queen/ice magic in s6.

tango

robot: redstoner...? red eyes. "tango of the tek/tech variety"

demon: red eyes?

blaze hybrid: red eyes? + yellow & red color scheme?

ghast: red eyes + loud & explosive personality?

tfc

dwarf: underground mining maniac

herobrine: steve based skin

beef

cow hybrid: vintage BEEF.

wels

also somehow never seen a non-human wels.

xb

guardian hybrid: guardian temple base in s3 + guardians in base in s7. says hes fond of them in s7.

xisuma

robot: full doomguy suit skin?

"void walker"/any kind of end being: xisuma VOID. doc calls him a gentlevoid at some point.

shapeshifter: seasonal skin changes

zedaph

sheep hybrid: is that sheep looking at me gameshow + sheep wall experiment ?

void/end hybrids: purple eyes

bat hybrid: skin's face looks like a minecraft bat + likes cave builds

cleo

zombie: literally just her actual skin.

[icxrusat]

My favourite result of the introduction of prox chat for season eight: bdubs watches tv while he works + never ever mutes or deafens despite having been interrupted three times already by keralis and pearl

[bellshazes]

sotf is like last life's evil twin. bdubs swears to kill etho first and hunt him down in the first episode. there is prox chat. etho fucks up being muted several times. Bdubs killing tango and cavalierly waving it off and hurting their alliance vs etho killing genny and bdubs forgetting his murder quest to take that as a declaration of partnership. can you imagine if bdubs handcuffed etho in last life. it would probably sound exactly as deranged as this.

writers block so bad I'm on the verge of simply rewatching sotf s1. why did he do that